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Title: Coming Out of the Ice: Library Edition
ISBN: 0786193530
Author:
Victor Herman
Publicate Date: 2002-03
Publish: 2002-03
List Price: $24.95
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Format: MP3 CD
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1: Should be required reading
This is a very powerful book that should be required reading for every high school student.
Victor Herman was the son of a Marxist union organizer who moved his family to the Soviet Union to help set up the Ford factories. The horrors that the family, and especially Victor, had to put up with are inhuman, but typical of totalitarian societies. It's hard to believe that anybody would have the will and ability to live through all that they had to put up with.
I fear that this is what will happen to the U.S, in an Obamanation.
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2: Still Memorable after reading it 20 years ago
I read this book 20 years ago when I was in college and it had a profound impact on me. Now with two teens of my own who enjoy reading, when they asked me recently, "What was your favorite book when you were young?" I stopped to think. This was the book I named. I feel true stories are often the most powerful, and this one will inspire you and stay with you many years. Do read it if you can.
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3: You will see the ability of the human spirit to challenge all adversity!
In your life you most likely face challenges as we all do. Few people have ever been challenged and triumphed over adversity like Viktor Hermann.
If you are a fan of "One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich", here is another inspiring story of one who returned and survived the Gulag!
Hermann, an American is trapped within the Soviet Union and left behind. He is sent to the gulag and only by his wits, strength and inner presence does he manage to return.
This book is a personal memoir, it may not be the most well-written book but its story will not easily leave you. You will see the heights to which the spirit can rise and the depths and depravity to which it can sink.
Highly recommended and a true survivors tale.
Cheers!
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4: One of the most important books of the 20th century!
I met Victor Herman in 1981 at a small gathering at Rutgers College. He told us all about his experiences, although not in as much detail as in the book. I didn't buy the book at the time because I needed the money to buy food. I saw the TV movie a couple of years later, but I never read the book until recently. And only because I hunted it down. I never forgot the look of intense sadness in Victor's eyes or his story. This is 1984 in real life. Coming Out Of The Ice should be required reading for every high school student in the world.
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5: It grabs you by the.............
I am (very untypically) finding it difficult to express how important this book is. It's a story of incredible endurance and perseverance that will help you stop worrying about most of what's troubling you. It's also a reminder that everyone in the world does not think the same way, that other cultures and countries are very different, and that we truly have something special in the U.S. Our society of law, freedom, independence is very precious -- worth defending against enemies, both foreign and domestic. In a time when some Americans seem bent on giving away our democracy in order to feel safe again, this story is a powerful reminder of why we must all stand up for freedom. And if you think these comments are overblown, read the book anyway and decide again when you're done.
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